xxvi, 442 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

A quantum origin of life? / Paul C.W. Davies -- Quantum mechanics and emergence / Seth Lloyd -- Quantum coherence and the search for the first replicator / Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden -- Ultrafast quantum dynamics in photosynthesis / Alexandra Olaya Castro ... [et al.] -- Modelling quantum decoherence in biomolecules / Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie -- Molecular evolution / Anita Goel -- Memory depends on the cytoskeleton, but is it quantum? / Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos -- Quantum metabolism and allometric scaling relations in biology / Lloyd Demetrius -- Spectroscopy of the genetic code / Jim D. Bashford and Peter D. Jarvis -- Towards understanding the origin of genetic languages / Apoorva D. Patel -- Can arbitrary quantum systems undergo self-replication? / Arun K. Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein -- A semi-quantum version of the game of life / Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott -- Evolutionary stability in quantum games / Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon -- Quantum transmemetic intelligence / Edward W. Piotrowski and Jan Sladkowski -- Dreams versus reality : plenary debate session on quantum computing -- Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology : trivial or not? -- Nontrivial quantum effects in biology : a skeptical physicists' view / Howard Wiseman and Jens Eisert -- That's life! : the geometry of p electron clouds / Stuart Hameroff

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